Today we announced a deal to acquire WIZ. Read our press release below and learn more about what it means for sky customers and partners On the skyblog.
Mountain View, California and New York, NEW (March 18, 2025) -Google LLC announced today that it has signed a final agreement to acquire WIZ, Inc., a leading cloud security platform headquartered in New York, for $ 32 billion, with the reservations of closure of adjustments in a all-cash transaction. Once closed, Wiz will join Google Cloud.
This acquisition represents an investment from Google Cloud to accelerate two large and growing trends in the AI ​​era: Improved cloud security and the ability to use multiple clouds (Multicloud).
Both cyber security and cloud computing are fast growing industries with a wide range of solutions. The increased role AI and the adoption of cloud services have dramatically changed the security landscape of customers, making cyber security increasingly important in defending against new risks and protecting national security.
WIZ delivers a user-friendly security platform that connects to all major clouds and code environments to prevent cybersecurity events. Organizations of all sizes-from start-ups and large companies to governments and public sector organizations can use WIZ to protect everything they build and run in the cloud. Wiz is an innovative leader and continues to deliver new products with strong adoption that are burning fast business growth, including in the last 12 months, where it has begun to provide new categories of cyber security solutions.
Google Cloud is a leader in Sky Infrastructure with Deep AI-Expertise and a Track Record of Industrial Conducting Security Innovation. Bringing all this to WIZ will help make their solutions even better and more scalable, which benefits customers and partners across all major clouds. The combination of Google Cloud and Wiz will:
- Improve how safety is designed, operated and automated-what provides an end-to-end security platform for customers, of all types and sizes, in the AI ​​era;
- Scale cyber security team by giving them an automated security platform;
- Lower customers’ costs of implementing and managing security checks;
- Protect against new threats that emerge due to the promotion of AI, preventing violations and helps organizations respond to violations much more effectively; and
- Increase the adoption of multicloud safety and, as a result, the customers’ ability to use more clouds; Further spur innovation in and the adoption of cloud computing.
Wiz’s products will continue to work and be available across all major clouds, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Platforms, and will be offered customers through a variety of partner security solutions. Google Cloud will also continue to offer customers a big choice through a number of partners’ security solutions available on Google Cloud Marketplace.
You can read more technical details about WIZ’s solutions and how they will work with Google Cloud, on the Google Cloud blog and the Wiz blog.
The transaction is subject to usual closure conditions, including regulatory approvals.
Webcast
Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: Googl, Googl) hosts a webcast to discuss this message on Tuesday, March 18, at 1 p.m. 06:00 Pacific Time (9:00 Eastern Time). Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google and Alphabet; Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud; Assaf Rappaport, CEO, WIZ; And Anat Ashkenazi, CFO, Google and Alphabet will discuss the transaction.
Webcast is available here: https://www.youtube.com/live/8jy5ybrveu. A repeat will be available for two weeks through the same link after the webcast.
Quotes
Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google: “From the earliest days, Google’s strong security focus has made us a leader in keeping people in security online. Today, companies and governments are running in the cloud are looking for even stronger security solutions and bigger choices in cloud computing providers. Together, Google Cloud and Wiz Turboarchecharge cloud safety and the ability to use more clouds improved.”
Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud: “Google Cloud and WIZ share a common vision to make cyber security more accessible and easier to use for organizations of any size and industry. Enabling more companies to prevent cyber attacks, including in very complex business software environments, will help organizations minimize costs, disturbance and trouble caused by cyberSecurity events.”
ASSAF Report, co -founder and CEO, WIZ: “Wiz and Google Cloud are fully obliged to continue to support and protect customers across all major clouds, help keep them secure and secure wherever they drive. This is an exciting moment for our business, but an even more important for customers and partners, as this acquisition will strengthen our mission to improve security and prevent violations by providing additional resources and deep AI expertise.”
Contacts
Investors:
Investor-relations@abc.xyz
Press:
Press@google.com
About Google
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms such as Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Chrome and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in daily life for billions of people and has become one of the best known businesses in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
About Google Cloud
Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud that delivers AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security and collaborative tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planets scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform as well as AI-powered applications to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories are aimed at Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.
About Wiz
Wiz ensures everything organizations build and run in the cloud and transform the safety of activating a new operating model. WIZ CNAPP allows security and development teams to quickly identify and remove critical risks in cloud environments so they can build quickly and safely. With WIZ, organizations can prioritize risk and remain supple. Its customers include Agoda, Avery Dennison, BMW, Cushman & Wakefield, Docusign, Mars, Plaid, Priceline, Salesforce and Slack, among others. The company is supported by Advent, Aglaé, Andreessen Horowitz, Blackstone, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, Greylock, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Lightspeed, Salesforce, Sequoia, Thrive Capital and Wellington.
Forward -looking statements
This release includes forward -looking statements in accordance with the 1995 Law of Private Securities regarding the acquisition of Wiz from Google. These forward -looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties, which can cause Alphabet Inc.’s (“the company”, “we”, “us” or “our”) actual results to differ significantly from those reflected in the forward -looking statements. Factors that may cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the risk that the closure conditions for the acquisition will not be met, including the risk that the necessary regulatory approvals are not obtained; The risk that the final agreement regarding the acquisition will be completed before the closure; The possibility that the acquisition will not be completed in the expected timeframe or at all; Potential side effects for company or WIZ companies during the acquisition of acquisition; Our ability to successfully integrate WIZ or other companies that we can acquire in the future; Our ability to achieve the benefits that we expect to realize as a result of the acquisition of Wiz; The potential negative impact on our financial conditions and operating results if we are unable to achieve the benefits that we expect to realize as a result of the acquisition of WIZ, or if these benefits take longer to achieve than expected; And other risks and uncertainties mentioned in the reports that the company has previously submitted to SEC, such as its annual report on form 10-k. We do not assume no obligation to revise or publish the results of any revision of these forward -looking statements that speak from the respective date of this release, except as required by law. Given these risks and uncertainties, readers are warned not to place unnecessary dependence on such forward -looking statements.